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Beirut: Patients cram hospital corridors and spill into driveways. Intensive care units are full as the coronavirus thins the ranks of already-overstretched medical personnel. People scramble from pharmacy to pharmacy, plead with friends or resort to the black market for ventilators, medicines and baby milk. Lebanon’s medical system is buckling under a post-holiday COVID-19 surge that has killed almost as many people in January alone as died from the disease all last year. To stave off a cata...

Lebanons medical system is buckling under a post-holiday COVID-19 surge that has killed almost as many people in January alone as died from the disease all last year.

Faced with multiple crises, Lebanon teeters between a healthcare collapse and economic oblivion.

Doctors treat patients in cars as Lebanons hospitals buckle amid a surge of Covid patients Were getting to the point of true disaster, a doctor warns, as extreme lockdown and economic crisis threaten civil unrest 1 February 2021 • 12:00pm A patient treated in their car at the emergency care unit at St Georges Hospital Credit: Nabil Mounzer/Shutterstock Doctors in Lebanon are treating patients in parked cars, outside hospitals, in corridors, cupboards and canteens as doctors warn the country c...

ambulances are dropping Covid- positive patients in need of urgent care in hospital car parks and wards lacking life-saving equipment or drugs as doctors battle a sharp increase in the number of critical cases, health professionals told The National. “There was a day last week when we didn’t have a single ventilator left. We borrowed one from another hospital, but each day, we are on the brink of disaster,” said Georges Ghanem, chief medical officer at the Lebanese American University ...